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A list of the names of persons
killed, murdered, and captured since the 26th of February 1794.
March
9 - Samuel Martin
killed on a path leading from Henry's Station to his father's house. James Ferguson
killed on a path leading from David Craig's
to John Craig's
Station.
16 - John Wood
wounded with four balls, about sun lite, on a path leading to the house
of William Russell-a
leg was cut off.
18 - Four men killed on the Kentuky
road and one wounded. Four men killed in Tennessee county; the particular
day and names not known.
20 - Charles Bratton,
killed and scalped near the home of Major White,
in Sumner county.
On the 21st near the house of
Secretary Smith,
Anthony Bledsoe,
the son of the late Col. Anthony Bledsoe,
and Anthony Bledsoe,
son of the late Col. Isaac Bledsoe,
were both killed by Indians and scalped (their fathers, were both killed
by Indians, one, in his house, the other in his field). The same party
of Indians captured a valuable negro fellow belonging to secretary Smith.
April
1 - Thomas Sharp Spencer, killed on the road leading from Knoxville to Nashville, near Crab Orchard, by Double Head, and James Walker wounded.
2 - William Green,
a federal soldier, killed at Fort Grainger (the block-house at the mouth
of the Holston, so called)
James R. Robertson,
son of General Robertson,
and John Grimes,
his nephew, killed on the Cumberland river, the day not precisely known.
6 - The mother of Peter and Henry Livingston, and two children, killed near Mocason Gap and a negro taken prisoner.
19 - Travellers from Kentucky inform, that three persons were killed by Indians on the Kentucky road, near Middleton's Station.
21 - Casteel,
his wife and four children, were killed in his own house, at the dawn of
day, within seven miles of Knoxville. At the same time a neighboring child,
who, happened to be at his house was dangerously wounded.
James M'Cown,
killed at the house of Widow Hays,
ten miles from Nashville, Mrs. Hays
husband had been killed a few months before.
May 26. One of the spies, on
duty was wounded, on Bledson's Creek; And on the same day, on Station Camp
Creek, in the midst of a thick settlement, a party of Indians spied of
Mr. Strawder
and his son, at work within one hundred yards of his own house, killed
and scalped the latter - the former fled to his house, the Indians pursued,
and wounded his wife as she opened the door to let him in.
June 11. The wife of Mr. Gear
was scalped by Indians, within four miles of Nashville, on her way to church.
Hugh Webb
and Joseph M'Adams,
of Sumner County were fired upon near the Dreeping Spring, on the public
road, on their way from the salt works, with salt for their families; the
former was killed, and the latter badly wounded with three balls.
Robert M'Roy,
killed in pursuit of the Indians who scalped Mrs. Gear.
Stephen Jones,
killed on the southern frontiers of Jefferson county.
William Scott,
John Pettigrew,
James Pettigrew,
Mr. Tate, Mr. Young,
and another man, three women and three children, were killed on the Tennessee,
on board of a boat bound to the Natches, and twenty-two negroes taken prisoners.
July
3 - Isaac Mayfield was killed within four miles of Nashville.
9 - Major Winschester, killed and scalped on the public road leading from his own house to Sumner courthouse. He was a justice of the peace, and on his way to court.
24 - John Ish
was killed and scalped in his field eighteen miles below Knoxville, on
the south bank of the Holston.
August
12 - A party of Indians attacked the Bull Run block house, 16 miles from Knoxville, and were repulsed.
13 - The Indians on the Cumberland road, near the Crab Orchard, killed Paul Cunningham, Daniel Hitchcock, William Fannagan, and Stephen Renfroe, and wounded Abraham Byrd.
14 - William Blackburn,
one of the federal soldiers, and David F. Dearmond,
one of the militia on duty, were fired upon by about 15 Indians, the former
killed, and the latter wounded, slightly, near Fort Grainger, twenty-two
miles from Knoxville.
On the 20th, Allen Noles,
a lad of twelve years of age, was killed by Indians, four miles from Nashville,
on the plantation which his father had been killed about six years ago.
Robert Brigace,
was killed by Indians, on a public road near Sumner courthouse. His horse
was also shot dead.
September
6 - A negro woman, the property
of Peter Turney,
was taken off by Indians near Sumner courthouse.
On the 10th, a woman on Red River,
near Major Sharp's
was killed by Indians. The same day, a party of Indians fired upon five
men near Mr. Andrew Jackson's,
on the south side of Cumberland river, killed one man and wounded two;
amongst the latter is Mr. John Donelson
and the widow Hays.
On the 13th, _____ Walker
was captured by Indians on the frontiers of Hawkins, as he was passing
from his own house to that of a neighbor.
Gabriel Simpson,
killed within six miles of Nashville, in the early part of July, on the
plantation which his father was killed.
RECAPITULATION
killed--71
wounded--12
captives--26
total=109
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